Yes, because that "Boyz in the Hood" movie with Ice Cube was just awful, wasn't it? . Just because someone is known for rapping doesn't mean that they can't act. Colors, 8 Mile, and the aforementioned Boyz in the Hood are proof of that.
Or could it be, perhaps, that your virgin image of characters in books couldn't possibly adapt to having a black man, let alone a "street-wise" black man, in a leading role?
If you really did a fair amount of research into biometrics, you would surely realize that retina scanning is not done too often; it's actually iris scanning. You people need to settle down and realize that Star Trek 2 and Demolition Man are just movies.
Retina scanning would require holding very still and getting a laser bounced into your eye. Not much fun, possibly painful, and a lawsuit waiting to happen. Iris scanning uses an infrared camera to look at the iris (and looks for stuff like minute movement, blinking, the shine of liquid, etc that a real human eye would have). The iris has something like 200 degrees of freedom to measure a biometric against.
At least one portion of your comment wasn't total BS: biometrics won't replace passwords, they will complement them. Remember: something you know, something you have, something you are.
"Year-to-date for 2005, Microsoft has fixed 15 vulnerabilities affecting Windows Server 2003. In the same time period, for just this year, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users have had to patch 34 vulnerabilities and SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 users have had to patch over 78 vulnerabilities."
This actually brings up an interesting point. Does Windows have less bugs (I know, I know) than these Linux distros? Or are Red Hat and Novell more proactive to fix the bugs they do have? Unfortunately, my guess is most PHBs would think the former.
Yes, but if you're running an unpatched system (Linux, Windows, Mac, or otherwise), don't you deserve what you get?
For people who actually care about security, the toughest part about dealing with Windows is when you first plug the network cable in to the time when you get all of your patches up to date. Most of us get around this by having everything ready on physical media so we don't need to plug it in until we're ready.
Once it's up to a baseline spec, though (for XP-SP2, hotfixes, firewall enabled, antivirus, AdAware/Spybot/MS AntiSpyware, Firefox, TBird, and most importantly not running as an administrator) I would say its security is comparable to my Linux machine.
This is great to know. I moved recently, and went with DirecTV for one reason: dual tuner DirecTiVo. I had a Series 2 standalone that I'd used with Comcast, and while I loved it, the delay in changing channels and a single tuner made me want the DirecTV version.
Now that DirecTV is making noises about dropping TiVo, it's good to know that I'll have a similar option in the future, even if it does mean going back to Comcast.
Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
For those who keep saying "this isn't a big deal," or complaining about how infeasible this is, perhaps it would help to read about what actual pilots think?
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As great as "Seven Samurai" is (and it's one of my all time favorite films), the Criterion DVD was pretty poor. The transfer on it was awful; if you've seen some of the restoration done on other older films (Citizen Kane, Gone With the Wind), you know what I'm talking about. I'm hoping that eventually we get a Special Edition version of "Seven Samurai" with a restored print.
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Parent was modded +3 Funny? WTF?
The Citizen Kane DVD is amazing. Aside from the film itself (which broke ground in a number of areas), the commentary tracks are great. Roger Ebert's, in particular, provides a lot of insight into the technical feats in Citizen Kane.
TIVO has HD units, but as stand alones they are expensive
TiVo doesn't have standalone HD units; the only one availabe right now is the dual tuner HR10-250 for DirecTV only, which runs about $900 USD or so depending on where you buy it. I'd love to get one of these, but with with SD DirecTiVo available for $50 for new subscribers, I just can't justify it.
How big of an honor can it be, anyway? Hitler was it 1938.
Time's Person (nee Man) of the Year originally was not meant to be a "This person did the greatest things this year" award. Rather, it was about who most influenced current events that year...hence why both Hitler and Stalin recieved it.
Many argue that the Person of the Year for 2001 should have been Osama bin Laden, rather than Rudolph Giuliani. No one is going to say that bin Laden is a nice guy...but his actions influenced 2001 more than any single person.
Apparently Time had some pretty big arguments in-house when it came to picking the Person of the 20th Century. Again, if you're choosing Most Influential Person, it probably would have been Hitler, but in these PC days it's not something that most would find accceptable.
It will only take one or two bands to achieve success through these sort of outlets to really shake things up.
I certainly hope so. There's a lot of good bands out there that aren't getting their due from "the man" and as such aren't getting heard by many folks.
The good stuff is all in the story - a music download service that provides Ogg format music without DRM and a Linux client.
The bad stuff is that there doesn't seem to be much support for big name music. It'll come, and it will only come through sites like this leading the way.
No, it won't. Most big name artists...check that, most big name labels won't come anywhere near this with its limited DRM. I can't say I agree with it, but money talks and $DEITY knows that the big 5 are all about money.
I would like to think as you do that bands will skip the middleman and go right to publishing their music online, but that wouldn't just be a radical shift for the music industry...it'd basically be blowing it up and starting it all over again. The promotion machine that is the music industry is what bands need to try to make money, not the selling outlet.
Listening is probably the most important skill you can develop. You'll be bombarded on all sides: executives, programmers, sales people, marketing, etc. You're going to have to be able to listen to all of them and make decisions. Don't let any one group override and other particular group; you'll be tempted to let your programmers make all of the decisions, but remember that the reason you are there is to develop a product to sell for $$$.
Learn how to communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms. If you're seeing that the schedule is falling behind, don't wait until the last minute to alert the rest of the team to it. Put together a plan (we lost a lot of time because feature X was much more complex than we planned. We can either cut feature Y and hit our date, or add feature Y as planned on slip the date by a month) and present to the other decision makers in a concise fashion. Don't be argumentative...just logical.
Remember again that development does not take place in a vacuum; chances are your manager along with other executives made date and revenue commitments based on the development schedule. If it slips, or features change, they need to know ASAP. They have customers to sell to who need to know what's going to be in the product. They have marketing collateral and website updates that need to get in place. They have sales and tech support people that need to be trained. Your job is to make sure that all of these things can happen. The number 1 goal of any for-profit company is to make money. You need to give both your programmers and the other key stakeholders you work with the ability to do that.
Maybe not inches away, but when you're flying at 37,000 feet (+/- your altimeter error) at 500 knots in airspace without radar control with 1000 feet between the plane above you and the plane below you, it's close enough.
This happens twice every day; once in the evening when all of the planes depart the US for Europe, and once in the morning when all the planes depart Europe for the US. It's called RVSM (Reduced Vertical Separation Minimums), and the aircraft are almost always entirely computer controlled during this portion of flight. Linky
Why was this modded up as interesting? Windows (NT, 2000, XP and 2003) is account oriented. In XP, my account settings are under "Documents and Settings\$USERNAME\".
Google Desktop Search runs with the same permissions that my account has, meaning that it can't search across other user's folders.
Certainly there's a lot of instances when Windows is not secure, but this is just FUD.
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How about you're both wrong? There are Cavalier King Charles Spaniels +and+ Cocker Spaniels. In fact, there's three types of Cockers: Black, Particolor, and ASCOB (Any Solid Color Other than Black).
This is great because I can watch my shows an hour later in HD without needing the off air ant.
Since the HD DirecTV receivers also include over the air inputs, you really should look at getting an antenna. Try going to Antennaweb.org to see what antenna will work for your area. It can be a pretty small investment for a pretty big payoff.
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Impressive, but I'm even more impressed with this homebuilt 747-400 simulator.
Yes, because that "Boyz in the Hood" movie with Ice Cube was just awful, wasn't it? . Just because someone is known for rapping doesn't mean that they can't act. Colors, 8 Mile, and the aforementioned Boyz in the Hood are proof of that.
Or could it be, perhaps, that your virgin image of characters in books couldn't possibly adapt to having a black man, let alone a "street-wise" black man, in a leading role?
If you really did a fair amount of research into biometrics, you would surely realize that retina scanning is not done too often; it's actually iris scanning. You people need to settle down and realize that Star Trek 2 and Demolition Man are just movies.
Retina scanning would require holding very still and getting a laser bounced into your eye. Not much fun, possibly painful, and a lawsuit waiting to happen. Iris scanning uses an infrared camera to look at the iris (and looks for stuff like minute movement, blinking, the shine of liquid, etc that a real human eye would have). The iris has something like 200 degrees of freedom to measure a biometric against.
At least one portion of your comment wasn't total BS: biometrics won't replace passwords, they will complement them. Remember: something you know, something you have, something you are.
"Year-to-date for 2005, Microsoft has fixed 15 vulnerabilities affecting Windows Server 2003. In the same time period, for just this year, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users have had to patch 34 vulnerabilities and SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 users have had to patch over 78 vulnerabilities."
This actually brings up an interesting point. Does Windows have less bugs (I know, I know) than these Linux distros? Or are Red Hat and Novell more proactive to fix the bugs they do have? Unfortunately, my guess is most PHBs would think the former.
Yes, but if you're running an unpatched system (Linux, Windows, Mac, or otherwise), don't you deserve what you get?
For people who actually care about security, the toughest part about dealing with Windows is when you first plug the network cable in to the time when you get all of your patches up to date. Most of us get around this by having everything ready on physical media so we don't need to plug it in until we're ready.
Once it's up to a baseline spec, though (for XP-SP2, hotfixes, firewall enabled, antivirus, AdAware/Spybot/MS AntiSpyware, Firefox, TBird, and most importantly not running as an administrator) I would say its security is comparable to my Linux machine.
This is great to know. I moved recently, and went with DirecTV for one reason: dual tuner DirecTiVo. I had a Series 2 standalone that I'd used with Comcast, and while I loved it, the delay in changing channels and a single tuner made me want the DirecTV version.
Now that DirecTV is making noises about dropping TiVo, it's good to know that I'll have a similar option in the future, even if it does mean going back to Comcast.
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Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Dr. Swanson: Wow, that's messed up.
Yes...see...that's the joke! He meant cost of living adjustment, but the double entendre of COLA vs cola is what makes it funny, get it?
Thanks, AC.
there's been no COLA of any sort for a few years
Did you at least get Mountain Dew???
For those who keep saying "this isn't a big deal," or complaining about how infeasible this is, perhaps it would help to read about what actual pilots think?
Professional Pilots Rumour Network: Professional Laser injures Delta pilot's eye thread.
As great as "Seven Samurai" is (and it's one of my all time favorite films), the Criterion DVD was pretty poor. The transfer on it was awful; if you've seen some of the restoration done on other older films (Citizen Kane, Gone With the Wind), you know what I'm talking about. I'm hoping that eventually we get a Special Edition version of "Seven Samurai" with a restored print.
Parent was modded +3 Funny? WTF?
The Citizen Kane DVD is amazing. Aside from the film itself (which broke ground in a number of areas), the commentary tracks are great. Roger Ebert's, in particular, provides a lot of insight into the technical feats in Citizen Kane.
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Wait, what??? Oh...
We've mentioned this before
TIVO has HD units, but as stand alones they are expensive
TiVo doesn't have standalone HD units; the only one availabe right now is the dual tuner HR10-250 for DirecTV only, which runs about $900 USD or so depending on where you buy it. I'd love to get one of these, but with with SD DirecTiVo available for $50 for new subscribers, I just can't justify it.
How big of an honor can it be, anyway? Hitler was it 1938.
Time's Person (nee Man) of the Year originally was not meant to be a "This person did the greatest things this year" award. Rather, it was about who most influenced current events that year...hence why both Hitler and Stalin recieved it.
Many argue that the Person of the Year for 2001 should have been Osama bin Laden, rather than Rudolph Giuliani. No one is going to say that bin Laden is a nice guy...but his actions influenced 2001 more than any single person.
Apparently Time had some pretty big arguments in-house when it came to picking the Person of the 20th Century. Again, if you're choosing Most Influential Person, it probably would have been Hitler, but in these PC days it's not something that most would find accceptable.
It will only take one or two bands to achieve success through these sort of outlets to really shake things up.
I certainly hope so. There's a lot of good bands out there that aren't getting their due from "the man" and as such aren't getting heard by many folks.
The good stuff is all in the story - a music download service that provides Ogg format music without DRM and a Linux client. The bad stuff is that there doesn't seem to be much support for big name music. It'll come, and it will only come through sites like this leading the way.
No, it won't. Most big name artists...check that, most big name labels won't come anywhere near this with its limited DRM. I can't say I agree with it, but money talks and $DEITY knows that the big 5 are all about money.
I would like to think as you do that bands will skip the middleman and go right to publishing their music online, but that wouldn't just be a radical shift for the music industry...it'd basically be blowing it up and starting it all over again. The promotion machine that is the music industry is what bands need to try to make money, not the selling outlet.
Allow me to introduce you to Dungeons & Dragons ...
Don't you mean MERP?
There's a certain irony in checking out the Firefox ad from a CVS...
Listening is probably the most important skill you can develop. You'll be bombarded on all sides: executives, programmers, sales people, marketing, etc. You're going to have to be able to listen to all of them and make decisions. Don't let any one group override and other particular group; you'll be tempted to let your programmers make all of the decisions, but remember that the reason you are there is to develop a product to sell for $$$.
Learn how to communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms. If you're seeing that the schedule is falling behind, don't wait until the last minute to alert the rest of the team to it. Put together a plan (we lost a lot of time because feature X was much more complex than we planned. We can either cut feature Y and hit our date, or add feature Y as planned on slip the date by a month) and present to the other decision makers in a concise fashion. Don't be argumentative...just logical.
Remember again that development does not take place in a vacuum; chances are your manager along with other executives made date and revenue commitments based on the development schedule. If it slips, or features change, they need to know ASAP. They have customers to sell to who need to know what's going to be in the product. They have marketing collateral and website updates that need to get in place. They have sales and tech support people that need to be trained. Your job is to make sure that all of these things can happen. The number 1 goal of any for-profit company is to make money. You need to give both your programmers and the other key stakeholders you work with the ability to do that.
Maybe not inches away, but when you're flying at 37,000 feet (+/- your altimeter error) at 500 knots in airspace without radar control with 1000 feet between the plane above you and the plane below you, it's close enough.
This happens twice every day; once in the evening when all of the planes depart the US for Europe, and once in the morning when all the planes depart Europe for the US. It's called RVSM (Reduced Vertical Separation Minimums), and the aircraft are almost always entirely computer controlled during this portion of flight. Linky
I thought it was the fault of the DMCA, MPAA, and RIAA.
Why was this modded up as interesting? Windows (NT, 2000, XP and 2003) is account oriented. In XP, my account settings are under "Documents and Settings\$USERNAME\".
Google Desktop Search runs with the same permissions that my account has, meaning that it can't search across other user's folders.
Certainly there's a lot of instances when Windows is not secure, but this is just FUD.
How about you're both wrong? There are Cavalier King Charles Spaniels +and+ Cocker Spaniels. In fact, there's three types of Cockers: Black, Particolor, and ASCOB (Any Solid Color Other than Black).
This is great because I can watch my shows an hour later in HD without needing the off air ant.
Since the HD DirecTV receivers also include over the air inputs, you really should look at getting an antenna. Try going to Antennaweb.org to see what antenna will work for your area. It can be a pretty small investment for a pretty big payoff.